Went to Top Draw at the onedotzero film festival today. Top Draw is a compilation of videos based on hand drawn drawings. I have a new appreciation for animated film. It requires such unbelievable talent, creativity, and patience, you're creating a little world completely from scratch. amazing. Here are a few of my favorites 1. Edwin Rostron's Morris and the Other. So quirky, and a bit disturbing http://www.edwinrostron.com/morris.html
2. Golden Cage- The Whitest Boy Alive. Directed by Geoff McFetridge
Went to the onedotzero film festival at EMPAC in Troy, NY last night with the Philoso-raptor, a.k.a Lau-rawr. Onedotzero is an internationally renowned film festival and last night was the premiere of its debut in the United States. I can't imagine how different it must be for the organizers to move it from a place as cosmopolitian and cutting edge as Tokyo to a quiet, kind of rundown place like Troy, but hey, maybe EMPAC will change that in upcoming years.
We saw this video production called wavelength 08, a compilation of cutting edge music videos from artists ranging from R.E.M. to Justice to Radiohead. Bjork's Wanderlust was probably my favorite. It was just so beautiful and magestic, the trees actually being water buffalo, her clay alter ego trying to take over. So eerie and full of yearning it fit the song perfectly I thought.
I think the clay figure on her back is her past trying to reexert control over her present, but then at the hand she comes to terms with her past, embracing it, because after all who are we without our past. Who we are now is built off of who we were before. Also there's that huge theme of being connected to nature and Bjork feeling nomadic, having this sense of wanderlust, to which Im sure anyone can realte.
Outside of the screening there were ongoing video viewing stations equipped with huge, comfy beanbag chairs and noise cancelling headphones. Here's another one of my favorites, The Knife: We Share Our Mother's Health
My take on this song? Mother=earth, the environment. We hurt it, destroy it, eg global warming, dumping toxic wastes but in the end this affect us too because, "We share our mother's health." The philoso-raptor took a more literal approach, "Its just about children sharing their mom's health."
